TT files – generate enum from database

Many times you will program against a table that contains something like an enum,like Status( open=1,close=2,sent=3,approved=4 )  .

It is peculiar to wrote those status as text in the other tables – and you do not like also to have update their codes in the C# (VB.NET) code source each time you will add another one.

Rather,it is convenient to auto-generate from database at once.

But how to do it in Visual Studio ? The answer is .tt files – the files that generates also POCO

So here it is my own template for such enum from database .

To use,unzip,add to your project that contains the edmx and do what is says below- and you will see as many  .cs file as tables want to put.

<#
//*********************************************************
//
//    NO Copyright .Use at your own risk.
//    Please modify :
//    1) the names of tables to generate enums : string nameforenum
//    2) the connection to the database : string connectionstring
//    3) the name of the model : string inputFile
//    Then save the file and you will have an enum …
//*********************************************************
#>

GenerateEnum